Word: pensioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study in this school in order that the government may have well-trained librarians and keepers of the archives. Any one with a diploma from the schooI can gain a position in the public service. The three men who graduate highest in the class are entitled to a pension of 600 francs a year for three years. The Ecole des chartes is one of the roads which lead to the academy of inscriptions and belle-lettres...
...statutory prohibition, and thus deprived of that welcome release which, if their unhappy lot had been otherwise, would long since have been theirs. However all this may be, it can hardly be disputed, we think, that long-continued and meritorious services should have earned them by this time a pension and retirement from all active service on half-pay, so that they might spend the rest of their days cropping the tender grass of some bleak New England pasture, or nibbling from well-kept stalls the fragrant...
...generations. He was sent to Paris to educate himself for the law, where he studied with Genin, the celebrated philologist who was a personal friend of his family. While with him, he assisted in writing several articles in the "Nouvelle Biographic General." Later he held a position in the pension department which he left to come to America. He came to New York in 1857 and for four years was instructor in Fezandie's school in that city. He was appointed instructor at Harvard in 1871 and assistant professor in 1876. He is best known as the author...
...chief of the warrant division of the treasury department thinks that the pension disbursements this month will aggregate...
...House, yesterday, on motion of Mr. O'Niel of Pennsylvania, the Senate amendment to the pension appropriation bill was passed...